True! Twitterers Tout, Twit "Tweedy" Weekly

One of two things will happen: Either Twitter will gain sufficient acceptance that nobody will bother being annoyed it, or it'll stop being used enough to warrant any attention at all. In the meantime, some messages:

mrcornie Reading short story in 3/23 New Yorker & it talks of Facebook & Wii. Fascinated when new-ish pop culture phenoms start showing up in my lit.

suzannegangi Asked w/utmost respect: How old is Mr. John McPhee, esteemed author & "New Yorker" contributor? He made la crosse(!) interesting (3/23 NYer) [I wrote back, informing her that McPhee had turned 78 about two weeks earlier.]

VelocityWong My fave part of the New Yorker's Burris piece is how almost every mention of an IL pol has a parenthetical epilogue about their crimes.

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